Commercialization GAP fund’s new open enrollment allows for rapid development
The University of Iowa commercialization GAP fund is now available to faculty on a rolling basis, year-round.
Viewpoint Molecular Targeting receives fourth consecutive SBIR
Pharmaceutical startup company Viewpoint Molecular Targeting, LLC, has received its fourth consecutive collaborative Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant, awarded by the National Institutes of Health, for $300,000.
UI professor receives $50,000 for NSF I-Corps training
Zhendong Jin, founder of InnoBioPharma and associate professor of medicinal and natural products chemistry at the University of Iowa, has been awarded $50,000 for completing the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program at a national I-Corps training center in Ann Arbor, Mich.
iotaMotion excels in pitch competitions for cochlear implant accessory
Cochlear implants have revolutionized the treatment of hearing loss, but more than 50 percent of implant recipients experience additional hearing deterioration after initial hearing preservation surgery.
UI awards $625,000 to UI faculty through commercialization gap fund
The University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) has awarded $625,000 in gap funding to 10 faculty researchers whose projects have a strong potential for commercialization.
These include proposals for a light-driven desalination unit, a device for detecting delirium in patients, and a news aggregator than can assess the political bias of news articles and aggregate content according to users’ interests.
Innovation EXPO 2015 will celebrate Iowa entrepreneurs
The Innovation EXPO 2015 will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the Coralville Marriott Hotel.
The event, sponsored in part by University of Iowa Ventures and the UI Tippie College of Business's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, connects entrepreneurs, creatives, financial resources, and business leaders in Iowa to help grow more new business, create jobs, and stay vibrant and globally competitive.
UI adds more startup expertise to UI Ventures staff
The University of Iowa Office of Research and Economic Development has doubled the number of full-time staff working to help research faculty and staff take applications of their research into the marketplace.
Pulling Back the VC Curtain: An honest look at how the venture capital industry really works
Clare John Fairfield, Chairman of the Venture Capital Institute, will deliver a talk titled "Pulling Back the VC Curtain: An honest look at how the venture capital industry really works" on Tuesday, May 26 at Noon in C44-A GH.
Topics will include:
UI professor works toward HIV inactivation
Hillel Haim, University of Iowa assistant professor of microbiology, is working on establishing new approaches to inactivate human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and to increase its sensitivity to antibodies elicited by vaccines.
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